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Neon Genesis Evangelion in Japanese

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Shin Seiki Evangelion 26 episodes · 1995

Its 26 episodes have 30,601 words, 5,151 of them different, and 47% of those appear only once.

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Shin Seiki Evangelion

72%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Neon Genesis Evangelion's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 5,151 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 214words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 1,240words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 2,411words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 3,621words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 4,539words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 1,240 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 203, half need 959, and three quarters need 2,825.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 959 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 568 different words. From episode 14 on, an episode brings about 120 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 568 new words of 568
  2. 2 Episode 2: 333 new words of 506
  3. 3 Episode 3: 367 new words of 615
  4. 4 Episode 4: 215 new words of 463
  5. 5 Episode 5: 245 new words of 539
  6. 6 Episode 6: 252 new words of 570
  7. 7 Episode 7: 317 new words of 741
  8. 8 Episode 8: 262 new words of 650
  9. 9 Episode 9: 221 new words of 605
  10. 10 Episode 10: 197 new words of 596
  11. 11 Episode 11: 196 new words of 637
  12. 12 Episode 12: 201 new words of 637
  13. 13 Episode 13: 221 new words of 671
  14. 14 Episode 14: 103 new words of 475
  15. 15 Episode 15: 196 new words of 589
  16. 16 Episode 16: 128 new words of 580
  17. 17 Episode 17: 174 new words of 693
  18. 18 Episode 18: 80 new words of 547
  19. 19 Episode 19: 73 new words of 469
  20. 20 Episode 20: 101 new words of 609
  21. 21 Episode 21: 262 new words of 888
  22. 22 Episode 22: 118 new words of 718
  23. 23 Episode 23: 77 new words of 595
  24. 24 Episode 24: 119 new words of 648
  25. 25 Episode 25: 57 new words of 442
  26. 26 Episode 26: 68 new words of 449

Words no earlier episode used (the number)Words already seen

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 26 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 10% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted